Happy Kids International Kindergarten and Nursery aims to synthesize the best practices from a range of national educational systems, balanced by its own unique multicultural experience to create a day care and learning environment of excellence for children in the age range 1,5–7 years.

Our kindergarten philosophy and curriculum reflects, recognises and values the culture of our host country and our multicultural community. International education should serve international understanding and cooperation providing strategies for meeting each child’s individual needs through play.

Educational Chess

Chess is a learning playground with physical boundaries of the board and endless creative solutions in education. In Judit Polgar’s method chess becomes an exceptional learning tool, especially useful for children born into the digital society.

The Educational Chess approach goes beyond the usual ways of teaching chess and in Hungary it is officially part of the National Curriculum. Since 2013 the Judit Polgar Chess Palace program is successfully thought in hundreds of schools and the new and unique Chess Playground methodology is especially developed for preschoolers.

From day one in the JP Chess Playground preschool program, children get emotionally connected to the friendly chess characters and this gives them motivation to play more. The children become active participants of the story when playing games on the chess carpet and they unconsciously learn with the carefully designed tools of the program. The educational package includes books, stickers, card games, puzzles and much more.

Playing + Adventures + Rules = Educational Chess

Chess is an exercise of infinite possibilities for the mind, one which develops mental abilities used throughout life:

concentration

critical thinking

abstract reasoning

problem solving

strategic planning

Happy Kids chess program has been professionally supported by Judit Polgár and her foundation (JPCF) since September, 2010 and the kindergarten actively uses the JP Chess Playground program.

For further details about the chess champion and Educational Chess please visit Judit Polgar Chess Foundation.

If you wish to learn chess at home as well, you can download Judit Polgár’s animated chess teaching App, Chessplayground for Windows. Learn about the Chess Rules or download chess puzzles for beginners here. Educational chess books and equipments can be found here.

"I’m very pleased that my kids Olivér and Hanna have joined Happy Kids for years.”

Play your way to creative thinking!

Global Chess Festival

The Global Chess Festival is organised every year on the second Saturday of October. The Festival offers all day programs, including professional chess tournaments, simultaneous chess games, art shows, educational conferences and various entertaining programs for all ages. The Global Chess Festival in Budapest has become a prestigious event in the past years – offering a full-day family experience built around the mystical board game. The creator and main organiser of the festival Judit Polgar, best female chess player of all time, invites everyone around the world to connect in chess related activities, in sports, arts, culture and entertainment. Let us celebrate the diversity and the 1000 faces of chess!